Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
Fifty-two Sundays. That’s what we get each year. Advent and then Christmas; Epiphany and then Lent; Holy Week and Easter; Ascension and Pentecost and all those green Sundays which follow; a smattering of saints’ days and other observances mixed in, and it all…

Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, Amen.
“Once upon a time…and they lived happily ever after. The End.” These are words many of us grew up on, the words of a teacher or a parent reading to us from a fairy tale, words which we enjoyed hearing because of the pleasant ending we knew they would bring…

Grace, mercy, and peace be unto you from God our Father and from the King of Kings, Christ, our dear Lord. Brothers and sisters in Christ, the text for this morning comes from that Gospel reading. While trying to mind my own business, I heard a young captain discuss about the horrendous nature of the culture of Islam, about how they treat their women, and about horrible…